If you continue to purchase only about 12 orders a year, what kind of speed does this mean? Perhaps, probably the same as the previous Frenchman's feeling when he was producing Rafale fighters, anyway, no matter where it came from, it looked like an ox cart. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

But if you are willing to look at it from the other side, in terms of the size of France's military fighter force, the annual output of about 12 sorties a year is already considered a medium and high-speed scale, after all, the defense needs of the whole France are probably like that, but in terms of the needs of the Republic's naval aviation, the order for 12 aircraft a year is indeed a bit too little.

The order for 12 units is indeed too small for the production units of fighters, so why not for the army!

It's a pity that the national defense budget of the Republic every year is only so little, and when it really comes to the Republic Navy, it is even less pitiful, with the J-18 fighter now estimated at the cost of 105 million yuan a plane, HNA must spend 1.3 billion yuan every year for the purchase of J-18 use, and this is just the purchase of aircraft, supporting ammunition, logistics maintenance facilities upgrades, etc., that is not the place that needs to spend money?

Therefore, at this time, it is necessary to pay attention to the fact that in 95 years, the national defense and military expenditure of the entire republic was only more than 60 billion yuan, and this more than 60 billion yuan of funds will be distributed to the PLA headquarters, army, navy, air force, second artillery and other services, so how much money can be distributed to the navy?

At this time, it can be guaranteed that the navy can get 10 billion yuan of military spending at most, but at least more than half of the army's military expenditure is used for daily personnel expenses, maintenance of existing equipment, and so on, so that the military expenditure that can be used for military equipment procurement is probably only about 4 or 5 billion yuan, and the 4 billion yuan of equipment procurement funds are still used by the whole navy.

For example, the current plane is at a critical moment in the construction of the 052B missile destroyer in 95 years, which must cost money, and then look at the construction of underwater submarines of the Republic, which is an important part of the Republic Navy's flying submarine fast combat system, so it is really the turn of the naval aviation to purchase equipment and facilities.

Therefore, at this time, the naval aviation has a purchase order of 12 J-18 per year, which is already considered to be the top of the sky, after all, this J-18 is a twin-engine third-generation fighter with a heavy aircraft head, which after all, can not be compared with the previous Navy when purchasing side plate lightning, after all, the side plate lightning used by the previous republic is only a cost of 45 million, and the funds that can purchase five side plate lightning at that time can only purchase two J-18 now.

This is the ability to swallow gold of high-precision equipment for national defense, and the big guy like the third-generation fighter not only consumes a lot of money for research and development, but also will never be ambiguous when purchasing and using it in the future, and if you count the cost of the whole life of the fighter, it is not to mention, it is definitely an "astronomical amount".

It can be said that at this time, the naval aviation can give an order of 12 aircraft per year, which is already considered to have squeezed out all the purse of the HNA, and even after the purchase of J-18, the naval aviation of the whole year should not think about purchasing any other military aircraft, as for the previous navy also had a plan to purchase the air police 100 early warning aircraft, and even the procurement of carrier-based helicopters in the back of the navy may be insufficient.

Therefore, when Yang Hui, on behalf of AVIC Southwest, raised whether it was possible to increase the number of purchases, Commander Zhang, who was full of wry smiles, shook his head: "No! As for our country's military spending, you don't know that the annual growth rate of military spending cannot keep pace with the growth rate of GDP, and even the rate of RMB inflation cannot be compared, which even means that our military spending is actually decreasing every year. ”

This can be regarded as a sad expression of the army's sadness, military spending has been long and even lower than the rate of inflation, which means that it has been growing backwards year after year, and it has continued for more than ten years, so can it still be said that it is not painful?

There is no way, since the Navy gritted its teeth to give this order of 12 aircraft per year, then this time 12 aircraft will be 12 aircraft, as long as there is an order to ensure the rapid production of the J-18 production line, after 96 years, military spending will bottom out, and then it will increase year after year, and after 2000, the number of orders should increase, and then it will be the recovery of military industrial enterprises.

Now that it's the coldest winter, will spring be far away?

It also happens that the current J-18 is just in a usable state, although it has also passed the test flight test of the trial training base, but this is far from the formation of combat effectiveness of the equipment troops, and then according to the inappropriate ground to the AVIC Southwest to provide feedback, and then make targeted improvements, this still has some time to pass.

In addition, the various supporting improvement plans of the J-18 have not yet come out, such as the two-seat electronic warfare / trainer type, I am afraid it will take a while to do it, and the most important turbofan 12 engine is now only the initial version, and there is still a period of time before the 10-ton complete version is mature, that is to say, it will take several years before the J-18 large-scale performance is mature and crosses the bathtub curve.

In this way, the annual order is less, and it is good to maintain the order of 12 aircraft to ensure the operation of the production line, and the rest will wait slowly!

"That's right, the current situation is like this, the Navy can give us 12 orders a year, it's okay, we can adjust the production capacity of the production line, a large AVIC Southwest company is not necessarily counting on J-18 to achieve large-scale profitability of military products, the Navy has supported us AVIC Southwest for so many years, AVIC Southwest will definitely be able to understand the difficulties of the Navy.

After saying this, it actually means that the order for the J-18 has been settled this time, and the follow-up order for the J-18 will probably continue to be implemented in this way, but what Yang Hui never expected was that this time the Navy Commander Zhang opened an opening for the southwest of AVIC.

Continuing to walk in the clean and tidy assembly plant, there are still some people who don't care: "Now our navy's military spending is limited, and it is already the limit to be able to do it now, but you don't necessarily just look at our navy." Although the Air Force and our Navy had an agreement before that the Navy would not purchase the J-18 until the Navy had not equipped enough aviation divisions, it was a plan made in consideration of the production capacity of your AVIC Southwest, but who knew that the production capacity of this pulsating production line you made was so high, naturally the agreement between our Navy and the Air Force was nullified. ”

This is a big savior! Why didn't Yang Hui think about it before, as long as AVIC Southwest can meet the needs of HNA, then the other production capacity will definitely not matter to HNA, and the Air Force's purchase order can also follow.

The J-18 fighter is also a joint funded development project of the Navy and Air Force, and the Air Force itself also has this demand, perhaps after the Air Force pulls an order for about 12 aircraft, the production line of the J-18 can be regarded as a low-speed production state, and the unit cost of the J-18 may be reduced more or less. (To be continued.) )